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Musicbrainz track matching and other suggestions

#1

Jaikoz is the best tag editor I have used :slight_smile:

Some ideas:

Musicbrainz total track matching
An option to increase the match score if the total amount of tracks in the folder equals the total amount of tracks listed in musicbrainz.
I used to buy first editions of albums (later editions can include additional tracks), if the incorrect edition is assigned to the file, it means the ‘list missing tracks’ button will no longer work correctly; it will sometimes list tracks as missing when they are not.
As an example of this, below are two editions of the Crush Album by Bon Jovi:
http://musicbrainz.org/release/0e584652-f3f7-4e77-8694-beccbcba2841.html
http://musicbrainz.org/release/16f813e8-326b-4523-b208-50733807f61f.html

Option to display row spacers to distinguish between different sub folders
When there are hundreds of rows, it may help being able to see where one folder ends and a new one begins.
Like:
Folder A - File A
Folder A - File B
Folder A - File C

Folder B - File A
Folder B - File B

Folder C - File A

Tagging all files in a folder
Following from the previous suggestion… each folder spacer row could be right clickable; this might display a list of all album releases found in that folder; upon selecting a release, Jaikoz could try and match all files in the folder to that one release (there could even be an option to manually input a disc ID if none of the tracks matched up correctly)
Currently, I need to open up Picard Tagger to fix the incorrect files.

Create a folder.jpg
An option of automatically creating a folder.jpg if the folder only contains the tracks from one release.

Moving other files
If a folder contains other files, like a folder.jpg, include the option of moving these at the same time as the folder renaming process.

File Renaming Masks
Currently, the ‘year’ outputs the date exactly as entered, like ‘2008 -04- 09’
An option to set this to a four-digit year would be nice, so that folders are more uniformly named (currently you can end up having folders like Album A (2007) and Album B (2007 -02- 04)

Thank you in advance.

#2

This sounds like a goer, because if the user hasnt actually stored their files by folder it wont break it will just prevent them getting the max score, I’ll add to the enhancement list.

Maybe, this could be implemented as a Treetable but the trouble is you are assuming that the files are in folder order what happens if the files are sorted by artistname for example.

But Jaikoz doesnt really work per folder, it works per file. I can see Im going to have to offer some kind of solution here, but cant see how it fits into the current gui very easily. You can already manually enter any idea you like and easily copy and paste it to the other fields.

I know having a single jpg saves space but its very easy for jpg to get lost from the mp3s. Its not something I would ever do myself, but i’ll consider adding it.

… which is why you need this option as well …

There have already been some requests to change what is displayed in the Year field, and this would probably be the first stage, but could add short year to filename renaming as well.

#3

I just purchased this software so I’m still climbing up the learning curve. When I renamed a folder, etc. I discovered that any non-music files were not moved with them. I’m afraid I’ll have to wait for this feature before I can begin a large scale re-tagging of my files.

Also I would like to see the folder renamed instead of creating a new folder. The current method adds the extra task of manually deleting the old folder.

Thanks,

Mike

#4

What platform are you on? On Mac, I run Tidy Up to remove empty folders from my working folder. any folders left will have the non-music files some of the above posters mention (I search for some of those ahead of time since I keep any of them really). It’s amazing how many music videos I didn’t know I had by looking in the remaining folders!

#5

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Also I would like to see the folder renamed instead of creating a new folder. The current method adds the extra task of manually deleting the old folder.
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What platform are you on? On Mac, I run Tidy Up to remove empty folders from my working folder. any folders left will have the non-music files some of the above posters mention (I search for some of those ahead of time since I keep any of them really). It’s amazing how many music videos I didn’t know I had by looking in the remaining folders!

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I use both a Mac nad Linux. For the tag editing I’ve been using the Mac.

Still, the way I see and understand the current process, I still have to deal with manually moving the non-music files.

After thinking about this last night a simplier soultion came to mind. The current process when renaming a folder is to create a new folder with the new name and then the app moves the music files to the new folder. This results in two problems, non-music files are not copies and the old folder is left behind to deal with manually. Instead, just simply rename the current folder. This would deal with non-music files and the extra folder. Other taggers I’ve used before (Easytag?) have done this.

#6

From a programmers perspective the problem with renaming a folder is that it only works if you are renaming to a folder on the same filesystem, if you are changing the path so that it is a different filesystem (Mount point on UNIX, C:,D: on Windows) you have to do a copy. So for simplicities sake I always create anew but I hadn’t properly considered non music files that you would want to keep with the music files, I’ll need to address this soon.